WE INSPIRE THE NEXT GENERATION – HELP US INVEST IN THE FUTURE
The future of cold, clean rivers and streams depends on a steady stream of advocates and conservationists stepping forward to roll up their sleeves, raise their voices and invest their time and talent. To make this vision a reality, the Green Bay Chapter dedicates hundreds of hours a year connecting kids to the outdoors, providing meaningful watershed and environmental education opportunities and mentoring burgeoning young conservationists.
Our youth education work relies on volunteers and supporters to be successful and thanks to all of you, we are able to:
- Run Trout In the Classroom programs in 3 schools, reaching countless students each year
- For several years, we taught fly-tying and casting at the Outagamie Conservation Club’s (OCC) Take-a-Kid-Fishing day. Several hundred youth attend this event annually.
- We have also partnered with the Brown County Human Services and the Brown County Izaak Walton League on a Kids Fishing Day (at the Izaak Walton League Ponds in Bellevue) for over 30 years. At this event, we help underprivileged Brown County youth with baiting, fishing, fish removal, and other fishing practices.
- Additionally, we constructed and maintain a Trout “Tails” Educational Trail in the Brown County Reforestation Camp (across from the Northeast Wisconsin Zoo). The educational trail runs along Haller Creek, a WI DNR stocked urban trout fishery. Our trail was first installed in the 1990s and was revamped between 2020-2024.
Support our youth education work today! As an all-volunteer organization, we need your time, expertise and donations to continue our great work!
HEADWATERS YOUTH PROGRAM
TU’s Headwaters Youth Program contains a developmental model called the “Stream of Engagement” that strives to provide opportunities for involvement at all ages and interest levels. Some programs like Trout in the Classroom and STREAM Girls put a heavy focus on watershed-based STEM learning, while others like the TU Summer Trout Camps and Academies serve as Fly Fishing 101 experiences for teen participants. With an evolving high school club program and college capstone called the TU 5 Rivers on over 100 college campuses across the U.S. we are keeping youth connected to conservation into adulthood.
Headwaters also offers youth memberships, Stream Explorers (ages 12 and under) and TU Teens (ages 13 to 17), that contain fun elements such as a trout-focused kids’ magazine, Stream Explorers and Teen stickers, and fun premium items like hats, books and logoed youth fly rods.
Learn more at www.tu.org/headwaters